Swimming with Mermaids & Racing to George Town (Sailing Curiosity)

Before we take off, you want to tell everybody where we are, what we've been up to and where we're headed. We are at Rudder Cut Key. Not a very inventive name because that's Rudder Cut and this is the key that's right next to it, I guess. But the mermaid is here and it was extremely fascinating diving down in this random spot, hanging out with the mermaid. Nikki, uh, Nikki was hanging out. I tried to, you know, look good and sit on top of the piano. That didn't work out so well. Oh, it's a, it's a nice day. Perfect day for sailing. 15 knots of wind should get down to Georgetown very fast because that's where we're headed. That's where we're headed. Exactly. Oh, what else do we do? The snorkeling. The snorkeling around here is awesome. Wow. The snorkeling is amazing at slack tide only. Everything has to be done around slack tide, including leaving and coming in snorkeling. I saw the biggest manta ray. I think it's a manta ray I've ever seen. Literally I'm under the water. I'm like, it looks like a hippo. It's so big. I turned back to Nikki. Look, look, look. Uh, but overall the snorkeling is great. The coral, everything. It's, it's been a nice little stop for sure. And the lobsters, I think I got the only lobster. I literally searched for three hours for lobster and I found one and we're going to have it for lunch. All right, let's bring this stuff up. You forgot to tell them about the cave. There's also a cave that's here and you can drive your dinghy into it and there is a hole up top. That's it. We should have. Yeah. And that's about it. But we should have done a time-lapse because looking up and seeing those clouds moving is pretty stinking cool. But you know. Perfect day for sailing. 15 knots of wind. It should be a 60 degree angle. It should be great. Seven knots I'm going for today. Seven knots. Maybe eight. Whoa. It depends on the current. Gotta say lofty goals. Okay. That looks good. We are getting 13 to 14 knots of true wind, about 15 knots of parent wind. And we are cruising along at about seven and a half knots. Not too heavy. Feel a little tweaking. Maybe we can get to that eight after all. Especially when the current goes in our favor. Oh, there you go. We'll do eight and a half. We'll come back to you with that up. And as always, it's a race. Yeah. And there's a guy up ahead. We've got to catch up with that guy. For sure. All right. We'll report back when something happens. He's in our sights. We'll have to pass him on the lee side. So we'll give him a little, a little room. It's the courteous thing to do. We're also testing a new camera angle here. You can see it there. So that's the action cam. And I've got a little microphone attached to it right here. Just doing some testing. Hopefully it looks good. And we'll create kind of a cool perspective. Now we're at 50 degrees, 4.4. Man, we're sucking it up. See what I can't do about that. Still 12 knots of apparent wind. This is the both of us sitting at the helm and I've adjusted the microphone, so it's pointing this way towards us. Instead, before it was pointing up. We're still sucking it up. Sucking it up. Five knots, feet over ground. The monohulls pulled away a little bit. I don't know. I think we're just a little too close to the wind. Nope, don't like it one bit, but we are turning just a little bit up ahead, right? We're going a little bit, like hardly at all. Like five degrees might help. But see, this is the part where that I can't turn, yeah. So we're kind of already as far over as we can go. But technically, I still need to go a couple more degrees, probably. Yeah, slow us down even more. Ready to tack when you are. OK. Here we go. A whole lot to report. The sail's been pretty much the same all day. We've seen a ton of traffic coming at us, going by us, us going by them. It's kind of been a fun to see so many boats. And we are almost to Georgetown, to the cut to enter in. We're going to drop the hook and hopefully join a friend for a sundowner. If it works out. You never know with timing. We spoke too soon about nothing happening. Come on, baby. Real soon to dinner, honey. Whoa, that's the sound of the line just flying out. Wow, that's a big one. Yeah. Oh, man. All right. So I'll see you in two hours. I'm going to go have a snack. OK, I traded with Jason. We were making no headway and we're making some headway. And all of a sudden, I almost lost all my line. I kept letting go and go tightening it just a tiny bit. I wonder if something else bigger got him. I don't know. I can't. I literally can't. Oh, yeah. No, for sure. I can't bring anything. I slowed the boat down. I don't know what it is, but that's OK. I hope we don't lose him. Or lose our line. OK, well, hey, we have one hour to cut him in. I think the fight may be over and we may have lost. I was watching the tip. I had my hand on this crank the whole time. The tip bounced. Boom, boom, boom. The first time it bounced, I started reeling and then it bounced twice more and then it just started coming in. What a bummer, man. No lure. Took the lure. Yep. Dang. Because the leader is still on. It's just the lure is missing. Interesting. Well, now is that the end. Beans and rice for dinner? Yeah. Hey, we need some new gear. That was not a gear problem. I don't know. Sometimes it just happens. It's a bummer, I know. I'm sad to. Oh, there's a boat passing us. Got your toolbox out. Got to get a new lure on there. Maybe we'll catch another one before we go in. We're in deep water. There's a chance. I'm done with fishing. I want to do some catching. I want to go fishing. That's our friend Steve. Just hailed us on the radio. He's trying to tell us where to go. Apparently, the wind is going to shift. We haven't looked for the next few days. In a few days, it's going to shift to this direction. So that's why there's already people over on this side. Apparently, it's like a mad dash from people going from one side to the other here in Georgetown. Will be fun. We'll sort it out. The starboard engine on. It's making the camera vibrate, which is why we're doing this little test. Also, it's really overcast. The sun's almost gone. Yeah, it's kind of dusky. This is what it looks like in Venice. Look at all this town stuff. There's going to be a grocery store here. I can feel it. Man, am I ready for some fruits and vegetables. Thanks. Are you the official welcoming committee? All right. I know. Just throw down that mainsail. That was nice. That was really nice. You want a drink here or there? You got drinks over here? You guys want. No, we'll come over there. Is that is that good with you guys? OK, good. Free beer sitting there. Free beer. Made some snacks. Got a flashlight. VHF. Charts. Chart. Yes. Shoes, just the random case. Yeah, you never know. But for tonight, we're just going to go catch up with our friend Steve, kind of plan out our time here. And yeah, so we're going to put the camera down, go hang out, and then we'll see you tomorrow. And with all the cruisers, we're lighting up our boat. Yeah. The Manta's lights. There are so many people here. Boats. It's amazing. Amazing. Did I say amazing? Amazing. You know what else is amazing? Sharing the love. Hit that subscribe button and leave us a comment down below. Thanks so much for being a part of the adventure.